slaving in English

verb

1

work excessively hard.

after slaving away for fourteen years, all he gets is two thousand

synonyms: toil, labor, grind away, sweat, work one's fingers to the bone, work like a Trojan/dog, kill oneself, sweat blood, slog away, travail, drudge, moil

verb

• toil, labor, grind away, sweat, work one's fingers to the bone, work like a Trojan/dog, kill oneself, sweat blood, slog away, travail, drudge, moil
• break one's back, knuckle down, buckle down

Use "slaving" in a sentence

1. I've been slaving away at this report.

2. I'll just be slaving away over here over the grill like Cinderella. Matt:

3. You must cease this nonsensical life of yours, slaving away as if you were a servant!

4. In slaving times, the Mahenge area was notorious as the home of slave hunters.

5. Synonyms for Beavering away include toiling, grinding, laboring, labouring, slaving, drudging, plodding, plowing, ploughing and plugging

6. Because you're slaving away in that little office all day doing stupid, piddling little jobs for me!

7. This iconic diagram was taken from a British slaving manual and later used by abolitionists to show the atrocities of slavery.

8. She spends the next ten years taking in washing, slaving away to pay back the money they borrowed to replace it.

9. 1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 154: Why was I there, munitioning, Blacklegging, slaving as though my bread depended on it?

10. 1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 154: Why was I there, munitioning, Blacklegging, slaving as though my bread depended on it?

11. For the transported, harsh and unhygienic conditions on the slaving ships and poor diets meant that the average mortality rate during the Middle Passage was one in seven.

12. Arak and his twin brother Arion were employed by the powerful and corrupt merchant Kyras Shakati as aides and bodyguards, and both were aware of his criminal activities, including the slaving operation

13. Newton was a serious alchemist, who spent night upon dawn for three decades of his life slaving over a stygian furnace in search of the power to transmute one chemical element into another.

14. Alette's feminism is the discovery of her place in the world, and that place is not slaving away mindlessly for the Tyrant, not acting as just a womb or pair of hands or pretty face

15. 20 Newton was a serious alchemist, who spent night upon dawn for three decades of his life slaving over a stygian furnace in search of the power to transmute one chemical element into another.

16. ‘Before slaving vessels ever left the Barracoons of the African coast, Europeans closely inspected the bodies of captive Africans, even tasting their sweat for signs of illness.’ ‘These intermediary markets also used by agents of Europeans, who had Barracoons in these markets, were fed by slaves from the north.’